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French Learning Roadmap describes how I taught myself French.

H2 Grammar

Books

English Grammar for Students of French

Some grammar notes are #deprecated if they turned analogue.

French adjective ending rules
French adjective placement
French Relative Pronouns


French propositions
French command syntax
Using on in French
All French tenses
Dr Mrs P. Vandertramp

Dr Mrs P. Vandertramp

#french #review aka “The House of Être” Whoever this is, her name abbreviates many French verbs that take être rather than avoir....

4/23/2025


Voices in French

Voices in French

There are four voices, or voix, in French, compared to only two in English. The sentence contruction for the two...

4/23/2025


French negative constructions

French negative constructions

#cards/french/grammar #french #review Usually, two pieces are needed to make something negative. A note on négations doubles: for whatever reason,...

4/23/2025


French Verb + Verb Constructions
French questions and responses constructions
French present tense verb conjugation
French masculin or feminin
French pronoun as object order

French pronoun as object order

This is as illogical as ever but Le/la/les come after me/te/se/nous/vous but before lui and leur. So: me le/la/les te le/la/les se le/la/les nous le/la/les vous...

4/23/2025


French plural formation
French articles
C’est vs il est
Subjunctive in English and French
French possessive
Talking about groups of people the French way
French demonstratives

French demonstratives

Demonstratives are stuff that indicates which entity or entities are being referred to. Useful morphemes -ci indicates this -là indicates that ce indicates this...

4/23/2025


Le Participe Passé
French Prepositions
French avoir expressions
Talking about time in French
Les adverbes francais
Bon vs Bien en Francais

Bon vs Bien en Francais

#cards/french/grammar #review Bon and bien can both be adjective and adverb (and noun), so it's rather confusing. Adjective case Bon is...

4/23/2025


Plus pronunciation and meaning

Plus pronunciation and meaning

#cards/french/grammar #review When used to make comparative xor superlative adjective, pronounce [ply] unless there's liaison. Say [plys] at the end of...

4/23/2025


Ne expletif
Passé Composé en Français

Passé Composé en Français

#french #review #cards/french/grammar Overview For usage, see . Use passé composé to talk about the simple past. Syntax: pronoun [avoir|être] participe passé. Main note...

4/23/2025


Le Passif en Français
Le discours indirect au passé en Français
French futur simple irregular conjugations
Hypothesis in french

Hypothesis in french

#review #cards/french/grammar Future Syntax: si + present, futur simple Si je ==pars== en vacances, j'==irai== en Australie. Present Syntax: si + imparfait, conditionnel présent Si...

4/23/2025

H2 Inputs

#deprecated and migrated to Learning With Text

Learning With Text (LWT)

General Learning With Text is a free and open source environment for reading texts in foreign languages. The programme has dictionary,...

4/23/2025

French Lyrics Studying
French Poems Studying
French Novel Studying
French poem backlog

H2 Miscellaneous

Coursera Etudier en France - French Intermediate course B1-B2

  • We use nous sommes or on est followed by a day to talk about the day
    • Nous sommes mardi = today is tuesday
    • On est le 4 = today is the 4th
  • Use on est rather than nous sommes to talk about something formal
    • Because “on est” = “les gens sont”

H2 References/Resources

  1. Grégoire, Maïa. Grammaire progressive du francais - Nouvelle edition: Livre intermediaire. LP, 2018.
  2. https://www.cliffsnotes.com has some french notes
  3. https://www.lawlessfrench.com has some grammar guides
  4. Morton, Jacqueline. English Grammar for Students of French: The Study Guide for Those Learning French. 3rd ed, Olivia and Hill Press, 1993.
  5. https://bonpatron.com has a grammar checker and some grammar guides
  6. https://www.thoughtco.com/french-4133079 has some French guides
  7. https://www.iletaitunehistoire.com has many stories
  8. https://francais.lingolia.com/en/ works like documentation